Networking I - Basic Terms

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The cabling used between telecommunication closets, entrace facilities, equipment romms, or buildings

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Backbone

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A cable assembly with modular plugs on each end. Used for patching equipment to the patch panel in the equipment room and also used to connect to phones and computers at the drop

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Patch cable

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A category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance.

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RAID

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Refers to a computer's internal storage that stores information is temporary in nature.

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RAM

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Is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components

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Fault tolerance

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A pure network that does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network

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Peer-to-peer

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Architecture that uses a bus or star topology uses CSMA/CD when two computers access the network at the same time. The most popular networking architecture of today.

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Ethernet

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The suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet. Is responsible for error-checking and responsible for routing.

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TCP/IP

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A piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network.

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NIC

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An application or system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer system known as a server by way of a network.

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client

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A computer networking sharing information and resources covering a small geographical area, like a home, office, or group building.

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LAN

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The difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies and is typically measured in hertz.

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Bandwidth

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A glass or plastic fiber designed to guide light along its length, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher data rates than other forms of communications.

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Fiber optics

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A compute feature that allows the addition of a new device, normally a peripheral, without requiring reconfiguration or manual installation of device drivers

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Plug-and-play

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A hardware or software device which is configured to permit, deny, or proxy data through a computer network which has different levels of trust

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Firewall

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An in-house TCP/IP-based network for use within a company

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Intranet

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Metaphorical description of a non-network data exchange method

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SneakerNet

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Internetwork that connects multiple sites that carries network traffic from one location to another

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WAN

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Regulates all radio communications

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FCC

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The device that bridges wirless networking components and moves traffic between the wired and wireless sides as needed

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Access point

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A measure of broadcast frequency in cycles per second

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Hertz

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A credit card sized expansion card used to add functionality to laptop computers

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PCM CIA

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A technique for transmitting data signals that sends each bit of data one at a time in sequence

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Serial transmission

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IRQ #0

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System clock

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IRQ #1

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Keyboard

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IRQ #2

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Controller video adapter

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IRQ #3

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COM 2, COM 4

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IRQ #4

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COM 1, COM 3

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IRQ #5

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Unassigned

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IRQ #6

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Floppy

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IRQ #7

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Parallel port

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IRQ #8

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Real time clock

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IRQ #9

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Sound card

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IRQ #10

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Unassigned (SCSI)

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IRQ #11

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Unassigned (SCSI)

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IRQ #12

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Mouse

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IRQ #13

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Math code processor

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IRQ #14

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primary IDE controller (hard drive)

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IRQ #15

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Secondary IDE controller (hard drive)

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First concept of the OSI Model

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Application (Application protocol)

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Second concept of the OSI Model

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Presentation (Application protocol)

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Third concept of the OSI Model

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Session (Application protocol)

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Fourth concept of the OSI Model

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Transport (Transport protocols)

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Fifth concept of the OSI Model

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Network (Network protocol)

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Sixth concept of the OSI Model

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Data Link (Network protocol)

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Seventh concept of the OSI Model

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Physical (Network protocol)